Etymologies

Middle English articuler, from Latin articulāris, from articulus, small joint; see article.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Currently, BioCleanse and other sterilization methods cannot be used to process fresh femoral condyles, since it is thought that chondrocytes must be viable to maintain articular cartilage function. (emphasis mine)

The BioCart ™ Cartilage Regeneration System is an autologous chondrocyte implant system that is a safe, minimally invasive, high-quality implant for long-term articular cartilage regeneration stemming from joint cartilage defects and injuries.

The DePuy orthopedic division of Johnson & Johnson, citing declining sales, began phasing out both models of the device - formally known as an articular surface replacement device, which DePuy marketed under the name ASR - in November 2009 and formally

The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated.

Red blood cells and osteoblasts, an osteoblast is a cell that’s responsible for the formation, or ossification, of bone, gradually change the model to permanent bone and periosteum, a layer of dense connective tissue that covers the bone surface, except at the joints also known as the articular surfaces.

You will recall that we reported that this chondrocytes which are articular, meaning they are designed to repair joint spaces showed excellent cartilage repair in injury in to the knee of non- immune suppression rats and we kept these animals alive for nine months.